Screenhog on making stuff

There's a lot of Halloween spookiness going on around the island. The Halloween Igloo Contest is

starting on Friday along with a new furniture catalog, and the team's even been putting together

more costumes for later this month. And speaking of costumes, we wanted to show you a little

secret about something we do when we design clothing for penguins.Remember the You Decide

Poll with the rough art of the Gnome costume for the new November Stage? We got quite a few

people asking why the penguins are always grey in these pictures. Some of you even asked if it's

a new penguin color that's coming out!It's not a new penguin color... but we do put the clothes on

grey penguins for a reason. Grey is neutral - which means it doesn't look strange next to a

different color. If we were to use a yellow or dark blue penguin all the time when we designed

clothes, we might end up making a lot of clothing items that look really good on yellow or dark

blue penguins, but nothing else! Using a grey penguin gives us the best chance of creating

clothing items with colors that work on all penguins.

What do you think? If you've got any secrets of your own for putting together costumes or

decorating a spooky igloo, leave them in the comments.